Cost of Superbowl Security

[Al]

[rant] How is it that the sports betting industry, the NFL, Hotels, the individual teams, the broadcasting (Commercials) take hundreds and hundreds of revenue away from this game and the Gov. (us non sports fans) pay untold security..whats up ?with that. Why can't jthey pay for the security. And there are going to be military jets overhead???whf?? why??? And this after the NFL demands city ransoms to build their stadiums?? Enough already

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[bdcardinal]

The theory is that having an event like the Super Bowl brings in increased tax revenue through shopping and hotel fees that anything spent on security is a wash.

 

[PandaBear]

The same with any other large events, Olympic is the worst because of all the building in short order.

 

[Revving2Redline]

I thought they were about all gone. Sad we have to even worry about stuff like that. Have great weekend everyone

 

[Wolf359]

It's just the cost of doing business. When they win and there's a parade, it's the city that pays for it although they do get some donations from various groups, but not enough to cover the full cost. Just the cost of doing business. NYC alone has 38k police officers all the time. It's a function of government, we all end up paying for things that we might not use, for instance if you use the roads, you might not use public transportation, but your taxes still pay for it. And while none of us use nuclear missiles, taxes still pay for them even when none of them have been used. Yet.

 

[CT8]

Originally Posted by Al
[rant] How is it that the sports betting industry, the NFL, Hotels, the individual teams, the broadcasting (Commercials) take hundreds and hundreds of revenue away from this game and the Gov. (us non sports fans) pay untold security..whats up ?with that. Why can't jthey pay for the security. And there are going to be military jets overhead???whf?? why??? And this after the NFL demands city ransoms to build their stadiums?? Enough already

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Tax payers are stupid.

 

[hatt]

The Superbowl is going to bring in loads of tax revenue. It covers the security easy.

 

[Al]

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Originally Posted by hatt
The Superbowl is going to bring in loads of tax revenue. It covers the security easy.
Uhh..yea..how much of it goes back to the gov?? Let me help you..it doesn't
In terms of parades and such..these things don't generate hundreds of millions.

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Tax payers are stupid.
thanks..one person gets it.

 

[slo town]

I'm being deliberately vague, but my son is in "law enforcement" and he worked Super Bowl 50 at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara, CA between the Broncos and the Panthers. He was one of FORTY snipers in the stadium.

The snipers were selected after a months long competition and elimination process. Jurisdictions and agencies throughout the nation were able to enter their best marksman into the competition. And my son was one of the ones who made the final cut. To say that I was proud of him is an understatement.

The NFL pays all law enforcement costs for the Super Bowl. For regular season games the host team typically pays for law enforcement. Local law enforcement jurisdictions offer up officers who want the overtime, and the NFL/team pays them via a paycheck from their own jurisdictions/departments.

Scott

 

[JohnnyJohnson]

Originally Posted by Al
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Originally Posted by hatt
The Superbowl is going to bring in loads of tax revenue. It covers the security easy.
Uhh..yea..how much of it goes back to the gov?? Let me help you..it doesn't
In terms of parades and such..these things don't generate hundreds of millions.

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Tax payers are stupid.
thanks..one person gets it.




what they said!

 

[hatt]

Originally Posted by Al
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Originally Posted by hatt
The Superbowl is going to bring in loads of tax revenue. It covers the security easy.
Uhh..yea..how much of it goes back to the gov?? Let me help you..it doesn't
In terms of parades and such..these things don't generate hundreds of millions.

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Tax payers are stupid.
thanks..one person gets it.



Where does the tax money go? Just the ads will generate close to half a billion in revenue.

 

[slo town]

Tax money aside, see my previous post about who pays for law enforcement.

Scott

 

[Wolf359]

And if you look at the people who go, the ones who can afford tickets that start at $2500 and up, they probably pay a lot more in taxes than the average American.

 

[hatt]

Originally Posted by SLO_Town
Tax money aside, see my previous post about who pays for law enforcement.

Scott

Hey buddy. We're old guys yelling at clouds here!!!! Next will be the old "ain't no way they should make that much to catch a ball."

 

[slo town]

See my previous post.

Some of the very people who were potential risks, are the ones you are trying to defend. For months prior to the Super Bowl during regular season 49ers games, you had certain religious zealots casing the stadium, searching for a weakness. Some of these zealots purposely did things to get taken to the police detention center, deep in the bowels of the stadium. It was obvious that they were casing the security process.

Sorry to burst your bubble, madRiver.

Regardless of ethnic background, my son was willing and able to blow the head off anyone who attempted anything that would result in law abiding citizens losing their lives. He and the other 39 snipers were not there to escort people to jail. As I said earlier, I'm extremely proud of him and the 39 others who took on that immense responsibility.

Scott

 

[SZR48207]

I call it the "Stupor Bowl" because of how commercialized it is around food and beer now.

 

[MNgopher]

Law enforcement costs are paid by the NFL. When it was here last year, there were police officers from all over the country downtown. Last estimate I saw for the law enforcement cost was 3.1 million for the Minneapolis Super Bowl. The City spent roughly 5 million bucks on other stuff for the Super Bowl. The NFL reimbursed somewhere north of 7 million of their costs.

There are lots of other costs borne by the host city, but law enforcement ain't one of them.

 

[JHZR2]

The thing that gets me isn't the cost of the events. That's a calculated risk that a city takes on to have exposure, culture, etc.

What gets me is the way the cities write bonds and build stadiums and facilities for these teams, to be paid by the taxpayers, and in many cases, these venues are torn down before the bonds are even paid off. So it's debt upon debt that doesn't get paid off.

I'm against universities giving sports scholarships, and cities building sporting venues on debt, at least if the existing venues aren't paid off.

 

[Dinoburner]

The power of the government is that which is granted by the sheeple so we theoreticely tax our selves in a wonderfull Ponzi scheme.

 

[y_p_w]

Originally Posted by SLO_Town
I'm being deliberately vague, but my son is in "law enforcement" and he worked Super Bowl 50 at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara, CA between the Broncos and the Panthers. He was one of FORTY snipers in the stadium.

The snipers were selected after a months long competition and elimination process. Jurisdictions and agencies throughout the nation were able to enter their best marksman into the competition. And my son was one of the ones who made the final cut. To say that I was proud of him is an understatement.

The NFL pays all law enforcement costs for the Super Bowl. For regular season games the host team typically pays for law enforcement. Local law enforcement jurisdictions offer up officers who want the overtime, and the NFL/team pays them via a paycheck from their own jurisdictions/departments.

Scott

That's for in-stadium security though. There was that threat of the walkout for 49ers law enforcement security. I won't get into the exact reasons, but I think most here already know what it was. But from that there was a lot of publicity about how they got enough officers to cover 150+ officers on duty in a city with about 200 officers. Apparently the way they do it is that every outside-agency officer in-stadium doing crowd control has to wear a Santa Clara PD uniform (i.e. "double badge"), and several local agencies (especially San Jose PD) don't allow it.

Outside is another matter. That's kind of a different environment where I'm not sure that anyone is specifically reimbursed for it. I've been to college football games where it's everyone from campus police to transit cops working various security roles.

Apparently quite a bit of the costs for the Super Bowl are covered by the federal government.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...er-bowl-security-not-federal-government/
Major events are potential targets for terrorism, and the federal government, through the Department of Homeland Security, applies the designation National Special Security Event (NSSE) to highest-security-level events such as the State of the Union address and presidential inaugurations. Immediately below that designation are SEAR (Special Events Assessment Rating) level I events, for which this year's Super Bowl qualifies. This designation prompts a significant commitment of federal resources and pre-event coordination and planning, but no additional budget.

Basically only the Super Bowl or an Olympic Games are at that level of federal support.